Yearly Archives: 2017

The Turnbull Government is continuing to reform Australia’s child care system, and today is announcing draft guidelines for a new approach to In Home Care. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said In Home Care “needs a re-set” to stop services abusing the system and squeezing out families who need this type of flexible care. “What we’ve seen…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 6PR Perth Live with Oliver Peterson Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results 13/12/2017 18:07pm Oliver Peterson: But staying with the schools theme, we have seen the NAPLAN tests results released today. We’ve also seen the new Civics and Citizenship Report. Now this has revealed that most Australian students don’t understand the…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Sydney Drive with Patrick Abboud Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results; 13/12/2017 04:05PM Patrick Abboud: But first, some other results are out today – NAPLAN – and the report card is pretty bleak. Literacy and numeracy standards among secondary students have either flatlined or gone backwards. Some of the…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Adelaide Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results 13/12/2017 10:42AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming. Today, we release two sets of NAPLAN data: one looking at the core NAPLAN testing around reading, writing, literacy, numeracy skills, and the other a sample test around citizenship and, indeed, civics. Across the core…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on FIVEaa Will Goodings and David Penberthy Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results 13/12/2017 06:13 AM Presenter: Hey, we mentioned right at the top to start us off this morning that NAPLAN results came out today. We’ve got the Education Minister federally, Senator Simon Birmingham on the line to discuss how South…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Channel 7 Sunrise Topics: NAPLAN and Civics/Citizenship test results 13/12/2017 06:21 AM David Koch: Now, the latest national NAPLAN test results are out this morning. They show student results have stagnated with the proportion of pupils achieving the national minimum standard actually declining. There have been pockets of improvement but maths,…